- Free allowance
- Dynamic Port Forwarding, an exclusive feature for Premium members.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 2.5/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedstatic port forwarding is refused outright: hide.me views static port forwarding as a potential security concern. Due to this, we refrain from permitting static port forwarding across our VPN server network. Instead, we introduce...
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | Dynamic Port Forwarding, an exclusive feature for Premium members. The free tier carries 10 GB per month: For our Free users, you can use one device and 10 GB per month. unit none; metered on downloaded-bytes |
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| Price | USD 11.99 per month; USD 2.50 per month on 28 months (69.99); USD 3.93 per month on 14 months (54.99) |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) static port forwarding is refused outright: hide.me views static port forwarding as a potential security concern. Due to this, we refrain from permitting static port forwarding across our VPN server network. Instead, we introduce Dynamic Port Forwarding. source
- retention-clamped the mapping is UPnP-negotiated by the application rather than reserved by the account, so it is not addressable across a reconnect: Once the application maps a port, it can be contacted from the public Internet as though it is running on the router source
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| Binding | write-gated There is no byte quota on Premium, so volume does not bind. The refusal of static forwarding does: the vendor will not give a port that persists, which removes the stable public address the ingress test asks for. |
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| Identity | email Premium purchase with card, PayPal, Google Pay, Apple Pay, SEPA, SOFORT, bank transfer or crypto; the free tier needs no payment. |
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| Egress | With the hide.me VPN Premium plan you can use unlimited data traffic and up to 10 devices simultaneously.; ingress: tcp+udp free allowance: none published |
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| Interface | cli In-app activation, or the @pf suffix on the username for manual clients. |
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| Tooling | Official app with the port-forwarding menu, or any client with the @pf username suffix. |
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| Composes with | Works as a throwaway endpoint for a test on a free VM; a DNS record pointing at it will rot. |
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| Reliability | UPnP negotiation is per session; if a user's UPnP request is not repeated the mapping disappears with no server-side notice. |
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| Notes | The forum thread that surfaced first told users to buy a static IP, which supports the third reading, and the help page's own wording supports the second. Both can hold at once, and neither yields a free stable port. |
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| Evidence note | documented Measured would need a Premium account and a UPnP negotiation observed. Prices were taken from the vendor page as indexed rather than rendered, because the page body served was FAQ text only; the forwarding sentences were read directly. |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 0
- price USD 2.5 / month
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